Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]
… provided important locations for middle-class male convivial gathering in eighteenth-century cities, emerging alongside coffeehouses as important multi-use venues for a variety of forms of sociability. Distinct from alehouses, which … (short for ‘public house’) developed, a hybrid form consisting of elements of inns, taverns, and alehouses as well as coffeehouses and gin palaces. Early eighteenth-century taverns were marked by a reputation for debauchery and vice. Most … of polite urban sociability included taverns as well as coffeehouse, 2 their ideas became more strongly associated with coffeehouses, while the tavern’s popular reputation for vice and profligacy was encouraged in works by writers such as …
Celebration | Conviviality | Dining | French Revolution | Prostitution | Radicalism
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